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Show 'UTAH POWER WILL BUILD NEW PLANT WASHINGTON. Sept 21 The Utah Power and Iapht company has been granted a lle.-nse by the federal power commission for Its Soda dam sit.- on the LJear river a few miles above the existing Grace, Idaho plant of the company. A preliminary permit for this site and three others on the river was granted to the company on July 1!. 1921. Th. market for power in Utah has grown so rapidly during the posl two years that the companv finds It necessary to provide more generating capacity at once. A concrete dam approximately 2.rin feet long will be built in Rear river and two hydroelectric generating units of 10,500 horsepower capacity eacli Will be built as an integral part of the dam The turbines will operate under a head of about SO feet. The plant will i be connected by a 1 12-000-volt transmission trans-mission line with the existing system of the company. |